History Seminar: Mexico and Beyond: THE ART OF JOSÉ MARÍA VELASCO

Thursday 1 May, 5:00pm
Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford and Zoom

Convener(s): Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Speaker(s): Daniel Sobrino Ralston, National Gallery, London 

To join online, please register in advance:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/lb3zuv5yTte8tl8yfNijKQ 

santa isabel

José María Velasco, The Valley of Mexico from the Hill of Santa Isabel, 1877 Oil on canvas, 161 x 228.5 cm, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City

Daniel Sobrino Ralston is the CEEH Associate Curator of Spanish Paintings at the National Gallery and, with Dexter Dalwood, co-curator of José María Velasco: A View of Mexico. He received his PhD from Columbia University and has lectured and published widely on Spanish art from the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, contributing to recent exhibition catalogues at the Gallerie d’Italia, Velázquez. Un segno grandioso (2024); the National Gallery, After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art (2023) and Saint Francis of Assisi (2023); and the Kimbell Art Museum, Murillo: From Heaven to Earth (2022).